Is it possible that there are some other things that could be held back, pushed into the future, to address a lower request for 2012?
Bill Nelson
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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
You've done an outstanding job in leveraging nonappropriated funds over the last several years.
One thing that I've found not just in this position, but also as Governor is that the more I knew about a program, the harder it was to cut.
But condition alone will only be part of it because mission requirements would be equally or, in many cases, more important?
Obviously, we're in this together. We want to find a way to make it work for, as Dr. Billington says, the United States of America.
I think that it's important to point out that every agency of Government is going to be faced with the problem of how to continue to operate during the next 6 months.
So, you have given me a lot of information to make it even harder to think about cutting.
As we all are aware of the fiscal constrains, if additional funding isn't provided and if you're funded at the fiscal year 2010 enacted level, what would it take within your budget to absorb that kind of a budget cut?
Dr. Billington, you mentioned that if you have subscriptions and you stop them for 1 year, it's not as though you lost 12 volumes, or, 12 issues, but it's an even bigger impact than that.





